Penguin Random House, the world’s largest trade book publisher, relies on data to power every part of its global business, from supply chain operations to editorial workflows and royalty reconciliation. As the complexity of PRH’s dbt pipelines grew, manual checks and brittle tests could no longer keep pace. The Data Governance team knew they needed a smarter, scalable approach to ensure trusted data.

In this session, Kerry Philips, Head of Data Governance at Penguin Random House, will reveal how the team transformed data quality using Sifflet’s observability platform. Learn how PRH integrated column-level lineage, business-rule-aware logic, and real-time alerts into a single workspace, turning fragmented testing into a cohesive strategy for trust, transparency, and agility.

Attendees will gain actionable insights on:

- Rapidly deploying observability without disrupting existing dbt workflows

- Encoding business logic into automated data tests

- Reducing incident resolution times and freeing engineers to innovate

- Empowering analysts to act on data with confidence

If you’ve ever wondered how a company managing millions of ISBNs ensures every dashboard tells the truth, this session offers a behind-the-scenes look at how data observability became PRH’s newest bestseller.

Most enterprise AI initiatives don’t fail because of bad models. They fail because of bad data. As organizations rush to integrate LLMs and advanced analytics into production, they often hit a roadblock: datasets that are messy, constantly evolving, and nearly impossible to manage at scale.

This session reveals why data is the Achilles’ heel of enterprise AI and how data version control can turn that weakness into a strength. You’ll learn how data version control transforms the way teams manage training datasets, track ML experiments, and ensure reproducibility across complex, distributed systems.

We’ll cover the fundamentals of data versioning, its role in modern enterprise AI architecture, and real-world examples of teams using it to build scalable, trustworthy AI systems. 

Whether you’re an ML engineer, data architect, or AI leader, this talk will help you identify critical data challenges before they stall your roadmap, and provide you with a proven framework to overcome them.

What the rest of the world can learn from gaming’s data-first approach to AI adoption.

Gaming pioneered many of the AI foundations we rely on today, from GPUs to reinforcement learning. It continues to drive innovation, but it has also built a strong resistance to hype. This session explores how gaming teams evaluate, deploy, and reject AI solutions with a discipline other industries can learn from.

Learn how Dell Technologies, NVIDIA, and Microsoft deliver secure, scalable AI solutions tailored to your strategic organisational objectives. Empower your workforce with agentic workflows to enhance productivity, simplify operations, and unlock intelligent business-driven automation. Accelerate real-world outcomes with flexible, secure, efficient, open, and extensible ecosystems.

SAP Business Data Cloud is a fully managed solution that unifies and governs all SAP data while seamlessly integrating with third-party sources. With SAP Business Data Cloud, organisations can accelerate decision-making by empowering business users to make more impactful choices. It also provides a trusted foundation for AI, ensuring that data across applications and operations is reliable, responsible, and relevant—enabling organisations to harness the full potential of generative AI.

Edmund Optics stands at the forefront of advanced manufacturing, distributing more than 34,000 products and customised solutions in optics, photonics and imaging to a range of industries across the globe. Just a year ago, Edmund Optics began an ambitious journey to transform its data science capabilities, aiming to use Machine Learning (ML) and AI to deliver real value to their business and customers.  

Join us for an engaging panel discussion featuring Daniel Adams, Global Analytics Manager at Edmund Optics, as he shares the company's remarkable transformation from having no formal data science capabilities to deploying multiple ML and AI models in production—all within just 12 months. Daniel will highlight how Edmund Optics cultivated internal enthusiasm for data solutions, built trust, and created momentum to push the boundaries of what’s possible with data. 

In this session, Daniel will reveal three key lessons learned on the journey from “data zero” to “data hero.” If you’re navigating a similar path, don’t miss this opportunity to discover actionable insights and strategies that can empower your own internal data initiatives.

AI can now write, code, analyse, design, and in many cases, do the work we once saw as uniquely human. So where does that leave us?

In this session, Jason Foster, CEO of Cynozure, explores what it means to lead and contribute when the tools around us are evolving faster than our roles. This isn’t just a technology shift — it’s a people, leadership, and organisational shift.

Jason will explore how the rise of AI is reshaping roles across every level of an organisation, from task execution to strategic thinking, and what it takes to operate, lead and deliver value when the work itself is changing. He’ll share how individuals and teams can rethink their role, build human-AI collaboration, and stay ahead by focusing on what only humans can uniquely do.

Whether you’re a senior leader or hands-on practitioner, you’ll leave with a clearer view of how to evolve your role, build human-AI teams, and move from just doing work to shaping the future of it.

How do you enable thousands of users to confidently work with vast amounts of data? For PlayStation, the answer lay in a hub and spoke model and an approach that combined governance with community.  

In this session, Oleksii Zakrevskyi, PlayStation’s Business Intelligence Tech Lead, will share how they built their hub and spoke model that ensures secure access, while fostering adoption through collaboration and shared standards. The presentation will also explore the user experience innovations—from custom home pages to consistent design—that make data rapidly discoverable and trusted. A fireside chat and Q&A will follow.

In today’s landscape, data truly is the new currency. But unlocking its full value requires overcoming silos, ensuring trust and quality, and then applying the right AI and analytics capabilities to create real business impact. In this session, we’ll explore how Oakbrook Finance is tackling these challenges head-on — and the role that Fivetran and Databricks play in enabling that journey.

Oakbrook Finance is a UK-based consumer lender transforming how people access credit. By combining advanced data science with a customer-first approach, Oakbrook delivers fair, transparent, and flexible credit solutions — proving that lending can be both innovative and human-centred.

So you’ve heard of Databricks, but still not sure what the fuss is all about. Yes you’ve heard it’s Spark, but then there’s this Delta thing that’s both a data lake and a data warehouse (isn’t that what Iceberg is?) And then there's Unity Catalog, that's not just a catalog, it also does access management but even surprising things like optimise your data and programmatic access to lineage and billing? But then serverless came out and now you don’t even have to learn Spark? And of course there’s a bunch of AI stuff to use or create yourself. So why not spend 30 mins learning the details of what Databricks does, and how it can turn you into a rockstar Data Engineer.

Discover how Dun & Bradstreet and other global enterprises use Data Observability to ensure Quality & Efficiency, and enforce compliance across on-prem and cloud environments. Learn proven strategies to operationalize governance, accelerate cloud migrations, and deliver trusted data for AI and analytics at scale. Join us to learn how Data Observability and Agentic Data Management empowers leaders, engineers, and business teams to drive efficiency and savings at petabyte scale.

In today’s data-saturated world, the real challenge isn’t collecting more data, it’s transforming it into trusted, usable products that drive innovation, efficiency, and measurable business impact. In this session, Matt Webb, Head of Asset Information at UK Power Networks, and Franck Carassus, Co-founder and CSO at Opendatasoft, will share how UKPN is embracing a data product approach with the support of Opendatasoft to break down silos, accelerate collaboration across teams, and make data a real driver of business performance. With Opendatasoft, UKPN has built a public-facing Data Product Marketplace that ensures every dataset is accessible, understandable, and actionable — not only for technical teams, but also for business users and external partners. Together, they are creating data products that combine high-quality metadata, intuitive interfaces, and built-in observability, making them both human-friendly and AI-ready. This session will highlight the tangible benefits of this partnership: faster access to information, increased adoption of data across the organization, and a scalable foundation to prepare for the AI-driven future. If your organization wants to maximize the value of its data while delivering a seamless user experience, it will provide practical inspiration.

AI-powered development tools are accelerating development speed across the board and analytics event implementation is no exception to this, but without appropriate usage they’re very capable of creating organizational chaos. Same company, same prompt, completely different schemas—data teams can’t analyze what should be identical events across platforms.

The infrastructure assumptions that worked when developers shipped tracking changes in sprint cycles or quarters are breaking when they ship them multiple times per day. Schema inconsistency, cost surprises from experimental traffic, and trust erosion in AI-generated code are becoming the new normal.

Josh will demonstrate how Snowplow’s MCP (Model Context Protocol) server and data-structure toolchains enable teams to harness AI development speed while maintaining data quality and architectural consistency. Using Snowplow’s production approach of AI-powered design paired with deterministic implementation, teams get rapid iteration without the hallucination bugs that plague direct AI code generation.

Key Takeaways:

• How AI development acceleration is fragmenting analytics schemas within organizations

• Architectural patterns that separate AI creativity from production reliability

• Real-world implementation using MCP, Data Products, and deterministic code generation

In an era where data complexity and scale challenge every organization, manual intervention can no longer keep pace. Prizm by DQLabs redefines the paradigm—offering a no-touch, agentic data platform that seamlessly integrates Data Quality, Observability, and Semantic Intelligence into one self-learning, self-optimizing ecosystem.

Unlike legacy systems Prizm is AI native, it is Agentic by Design, built from the ground up around a network of intelligent, role-driven agents that observe, recommend, act, and learn in concert to deliver continuous, autonomous data trust.

Join us at Big Data London to Discover how Prizm’s agent-driven anomaly detection, data quality enforcement, and deep semantic analysis set a new industry standard—shifting data and AI trust from an operational burden to a competitive advantage that powers actionable, insight-driven outcomes.

How do you turn governance into measurable business value in months, not years? Join Jeremy Jack, SVP of Data & Insights at Sportradar, as he shares how value governance is reshaping the company's approach to data. Discover how they rapidly built a centralized source of truth, empowered business stakeholders with ownership, and aligned data efforts with strategic business goals. With a fast, focused implementation powered by DataGalaxy, Sportradar is accelerating ROI while laying the groundwork for scalable, innovation-ready data practices. Hear how they're moving faster, governing smarter, and preparing for what's next.

Data leaders sharing the good, the bad and the ugly about governing data across company boundaries and even outside of the company walls. Key topics to unlock are Data Governance, Data Products, AI for Data

Federated data management approaches like data mesh promise to reduce complexity by organizing data into domain-owned, reusable products. But managing data as a product alone isn't enough. In many organizations, true reuse and cross-domain collaboration remain limited, while redundant data products continue to grow driving up costs without delivering efficiency. To make federated data strategies work, organizations also need a platform where supply and demand can meet, and where valuable products can be easily discovered, understood, accessed, and combined. They need a data product marketplace. In this talk, using real-world examples, we will explore how a data product marketplace: Drives reuse and composability of data products, reducing integration costs and helping stabilize maintenance over time. Aligns data supply with real business demand, highlighting high-value products and preventing the unchecked growth of low-impact ones. Engages the full ecosystem, from producers to consumers, in shaping governance policies and a shared language that support collaboration and trust. A well-designed data product marketplace is not just a nice to have. It is the necessary link that makes federated data management strategies both sustainable and effective.

Large Language Models (LLMs) are transformative, but static knowledge and hallucinations limit their direct enterprise use. Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) is the standard solution, yet moving from prototype to production is fraught with challenges in data quality, scalability, and evaluation.

This talk argues the future of intelligent retrieval lies not in better models, but in a unified, data-first platform. We'll demonstrate how the Databricks Data Intelligence Platform, built on a Lakehouse architecture with integrated tools like Mosaic AI Vector Search, provides the foundation for production-grade RAG.

Looking ahead, we'll explore the evolution beyond standard RAG to advanced architectures like GraphRAG, which enable deeper reasoning within Compound AI Systems. Finally, we'll show how the end-to-end Mosaic AI Agent Framework provides the tools to build, govern, and evaluate the intelligent agents of the future, capable of reasoning across the entire enterprise.

When signal drops, so does customer sentiment. That’s why today’s telecoms providers can no longer rely on yesterday’s data—they need insights in the moment.

Industry leader VMO2 is raising the bar by reimagining how data moves through the business—from network diagnostics to personalised offer delivery—by building a real-time foundation with Striim.

In this session, Vinay Pai, Head of Data Architecture at VMO2, will share how the company has transitioned from fragmented, on-premises systems to an intelligent, real-time data platform that enables proactive customer experiences and greater operational agility. Topics include:

- How VMO2 detects and resolves network issues before customers even pick up the phone

- Delivering truly personalised offers and dynamic pricing across digital touchpoints

- Accelerating new product delivery with a modular, event-driven architecture

- Key lessons from reducing churn and improving retention in a fiercely competitive market

This session is ideal for data leaders aiming to modernise legacy infrastructure, embed AI into operations, and deliver real-time customer experiences that make a tangible impact.

“Data for Good” is about gathering insight, revealing injustice, and driving change. But what happens when the data we need most is missing - not because it’s hard to collect, but because it’s hard to face?

This talk explores the uncomfortable truth behind the Women’s Safety: that data on women’s safety - relating to male violence - is often absent not for technical reasons, but because it’s emotionally and socially fraught. Even among women working in data - people who understand the value of data and live with the reality of gendered harm - many chose not to complete the project’s survey. Their silence wasn’t apathy. It was a response to exhaustion, self-protection, and the emotional cost of revisiting experiences that are personal, painful, and too often ignored.

This session doesn’t ask how to collect more data. It asks how to make space for what’s already known but rarely spoken. How to recognise silence as meaningful. And how to place the responsibility for change on the institutions that are there to protect rather than the women who live the hidden reality.

What does it mean to do “data for good” when some truths stay silent?

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In today’s fragmented data landscape, organisations are under pressure to unify their data estates while maintaining agility, governance, and performance. This session explores how Microsoft Fabric, OneLake, and Azure Databricks come together to deliver a powerful, open, and integrated platform for centralised data orchestration—without compromise. From ingestion to insight, this session will showcase how “no excuses” becomes a reality when your data is truly unified, with a real-time demonstration highlighting the platform’s capabilities in action.

Multiverse is proud to host the Ministry of Defence (MOD) on stage at Big Data LDN to discuss their pioneering partnership focused on building data skills and capabilities across the defence sector. As organisations worldwide navigate the transformative potential of AI and advanced analytics, investing in staff development has become a strategic imperative. This partnership is already making tangible impact: over 250 MOD employees are currently enrolled in upskilling programmes designed to strengthen data literacy, enhance analytical capabilities, and embed a culture of continuous learning. The initiative equips personnel to leverage data effectively, driving smarter decision-making and supporting the MOD’s ongoing Strategic Defence Reform agenda.

Speakers will share insights into how targeted learning interventions and personalised development pathways can accelerate organisational capability while delivering measurable outcomes. Attendees will hear first-hand how the collaboration between Multiverse and the MOD has delivered early successes, fostered a growth mindset among staff, and positioned the MOD to scale these programmes far beyond their current reach. This session offers a unique opportunity for leaders and practitioners alike to explore the intersection of talent investment, AI adoption, and data-driven transformation, demonstrating how strategic upskilling can future-proof organisations in an increasingly complex data landscape.

Reason why Data should be the Fourth Pillar for every enterprise. The Board, CEOs, and CxOs must understand why they should treat data strategically. Enterprises’ use cases like AI drive the need for data high in quality, compliance, and speed dimensions. 

- Present a framework for enterprises to understand their current data challenges. 

- Key principles for the data pillar 

- Role of the Chief Data Officer (CDO) - nurture demand for data while taking steps to fulfill the supply of demand through an agile data operating model (DOM). The DOM enabled by people, processes, and technologies. 

- Measuring the impact provided by the data pillar, introduce KPIs such as Total Addressable Value through data (TAV) and Expected Addressable Value through data (EAV). 

- A Maturity Framework for every enterprise to track and progress its data maturity journey.

In today’s rapidly evolving data landscape, organisations face increasing pressure to maintain control and sovereignty over their data. After a quick introduction to Apache Iceberg and Apache Polaris (Incubating), this session will dive into a real world use case demonstrating how these technologies can power a robust, governance focused data platform. We’ll explore strategies to secure access to data, discuss upcoming roadmap features like RBAC, FGAC, and ABAC, and show how to build custom extensions to tailor governance to your organisation’s needs.

Two people die each week on average as a result of the UK’s infected blood scandal.

The Infected Blood Compensation Authority (IBCA), was set up in May 2024, to pay compensation to eligible members of the infected blood community following the recommendations of the Infected Blood Inquiry.

Data helps tell the story of a person impacted by the infected blood scandal. But sometimes the data we need isn’t available, which means IBCA needs to look at what is available and carefully piece it together to build their story.  

Alix Crabtree (Deputy Director of Data) will explore the inherent challenges IBCA faces and how they use data across the medical landscape to build a full picture for people whose stories need to be told. She'll show how IBCA puts affected people at the centre of everything they do.

Join her to learn about the technical and ethical considerations behind building a data-driven compensation service that puts users at the centre of everything they do.  

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